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This manuscript, probably made in the second half of the fourteenth century, bears witness to a long and lively history of
use and collection. It contains a prose Latin history of the fall of Troy written in 1287 by Guido delle Colonne, whose account
was enormously popular for several centuries after its composition and influenced, directly or in translation, the works of
Chaucer and Shakespeare. This particular manuscript was likely made at a university for scholarly use, and its margins are
filled with erudite notes from the fifteenth century. Many different individuals owned and signed the manuscript in its first
centuries; one even wrote a Latin poem on drunkenness in one of its blank final pages. The manuscript eventually found its
way into the hands of the notorious manuscript collector, Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Date

Second half of 14th century CE

Origin

England

Form

Book

Genre

Historical

Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

Support material

Parchment

Medium to heavy weight; well selected and prepared

Extent

Foliation: ii+109+ii

Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

Collation

Formula: 1-13(8), 14(6, -6)

Catchwords: Catchwords in lower right corners of the last verso of each quire, written in text-hand with brown ink

Signatures: First four folios of each quire numbered (1-4) at bottom center of recto in brown ink; also marked below, in black
ink, with a combination of Greek and Roman letters

Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, London, early nineteenth century; Thorpe's notation on upper right verso of first flyleaf; marked
"Thorpe 1836" in pencil on center of the page (by Phillipps); his catalog no. 293 on verso of second flyleaf

Sir Thomas Phillipps, bought in 1836 from Thorpe; cat. no. 9409; bookplate removed, but number remains on spine; "Phillipps
Ms." written in pencil at the center of the verso of the first flyleaf, with number erased

Sold at auction (Sothebys) by Thomas Fenwick (grandson of Phillipps) between 1893 and 1919; his inspection mark in interior
upper corner of the verso of the first flyleaf after the manuscript with date 1893

Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest

Bibliography

Thorpe, Thomas. Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts, upon vellum and paper, collected in this and other countries,
forming, it is presumed, the most important and interesting collection ever offered for sale, particularly rich in English,
Irish and Scotish history, from the conquest to the present time. London, 1836. no. 293.

De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W.
Wilson Company, 1935, p. 841, no. 484.

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